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Monthly Archives: September 2015

Foreign Joy

28 Monday Sep 2015

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Flying Austrian Air to Vienna and then Bucharest. It’s time travel—not to a different time, but in one. We just finished a full free dinner. There will also be free breakfast.

Our tickets were $1300 per person. For all I know we paid an extra $100 per ticket for these meals. And we are delighted.

“I could go home now,” I told my wife as we polished off chicken and mashed potatoes, and she knew what I meant. The dinner was blissful. We were complete. We felt loved, by emotionless, attentive flight attendants. We felt valued.austrian-airlines-logo

This is not a plea to the U.S. carriers. There is no way they will ever go back to this model – they’ve gone too far. On the leg to Dulles, a dour (not to be confused with emotionless) United Airlines attendant was asked for a blanket by a sweet skinny older lady, and with absolutely no compassion or apology told her that blankets were removed in the cost-cutting frenzy after 9-11 and the subsequent run-up in fuel prices. “That many blankets are heavy, and they decided they could save fuel by eliminating them.”

Back in our seats my wife said, “Couldn’t they have kept ten blankets? That would be enough.”

There is a joylessness in the airlines’ quest for profitability. In every interview about their atrocious customer service ratings, Frontier will say they’re doing exactly what their customers want, and that once they get really good at it, their ratings will rise.

So we’re 37,000 feet up and just south of Greenland, 10 hours into our trip, and feeling joyful as we follow Austrian Airline’s onscreen seat exercises to avoid dying by blood clot.

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Vampire Vic Audiobook

22 Tuesday Sep 2015

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Vampire Vic, audiobookJust a reminder that book 1 in the Vampire Vic trilogy is on Audible and iTunes. Pro voice man Paul Rohrer is our narrator. Actor, coach, radio host, speaker and published author, Paul brings Vic and the story to life. We hope you’ll give it a listen!

Click below to find the Vampire Vic (book 1) audiobook on Audible or iTunes.

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Vampire Vic2: Morbius Reborn – It’s Out!

21 Monday Sep 2015

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Vampire Vic, Trilogy, CoverBook 2 in the VV Trilogy is on Amazon and Barnes & Noble! We are very excited about this series – whether you’re a vampire genre fan or not, we think you’ll enjoy the tale of a very normal dude, Victor Thetherson, trying to find his way as a vampire.

Thanks in large part to our publicist Samantha Lien at Roger Charlie, we have been receiving great exposure from the around the country and the world wide web. Below is a list of our interviews and blog posts to date. We aim to entertain, and hope you get a kick out of what you see, hear & read!

Girls of Geek – Video Interview (Part 1)

Girls of Geek – Video Interview (Part 2)

Inside BJ’s Head – Guest Blog

Dear Teen Me – Jason

Dear Teen Me – Allan

Indie Books – Radio Interview

Fang-tastic Books – Guest Blog

A Tiffy Fit’s Reading Corner – Book Review

Portland Book Review – Guest Blog

Abibliophobic Tendencies – Q&A

The Funky Writer – Radio Interview

Angie’s Angle – Q&A

SF Signal – Guest Blog

Infinite House of Books – Q&A

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